1876 in music

1876 in music

Events

* February 24 - Incidental music composed by Edvard Grieg for Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt premieres.
* August 16 - Richard Wagner's "Siegfried" debuts in Bayreuth

Published popular music

* "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen" by Thomas Payne Westendorf
* "Grandfather's Clock" by Henry Clay Work
* "The Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond" by Andrew Lang
* "Gay As A Lark" by Septimus Winner
* "When The Great Red Dawn is Shining" (anon)
* "Old Aunt Jemima" by James Grace
* "Rose of Killarney" by George Cooper & John Rogers Thomas

Classical music

*Johannes Brahms - "Symphony No. 1" completed
*Pietro Abbà Cornaglia - "Requiem"
*Felix Draeseke - "Six Fugues for piano"; "Dämmerungsräume: Five piano pieces", op 14
*Antonín Dvořák - "Piano Concerto in G minor", op. 33
*César Franck - "Les Éolides"
*Benjamin Godard - "Concerto Romantique"
*Bedřich Smetana - "String Quartet No. 1 in E minor From My Life"
*Charles-Marie Widor - Organ Symphonies Nos. 1-3 Op. 13

Opera

*Amilcare Ponchielli - " La Gioconda"
*Arrigo Boito - "Mefistofele"
*Luigi Denza - "Wallenstein"
*Bedřich Smetana - "The Kiss"
*Richard Wagner - "Siegfried"
*Richard Wagner - "Götterdämmerung"

Musical theater

Births

*January 12 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer
*January 29
**Havergal Brian, composer (d. 1972)
**Ludolf Nielsen, composer (d. 1939)
*February 2 - Giovanni Zenatello, tenor
*February 28 - John Alden Carpenter, composer
*March 11 - Carl Ruggles, composer (d. 1971)
*May 19 - Alice Mary Smith, composer
*June 2 - Hakon Børresen, Danish composer (d. 1954)
*June 5 - Tony Jackson, jazz musician (d. 1920)
*August 14 - Florrie Forde, Australian-born English music hall singer
*September 15 - Bruno Walter, conductor (d. 1962)
*November 23 - Manuel de Falla, composer (d. 1946)
*December 11 - Mieczysław Karłowicz, composer (d. 1909)

Deaths

*March 5
**Francesco Maria Piave, librettist and friend of Giuseppe Verdi
**Marie d'Agoult, lover of Franz Liszt and mother of Cosima Wagner
*April 19 - Samuel Sebastian Wesley, organist and composer
*August 29 - Félicien-César David, composer
*September 30 - Henri Bertini, pianist and composer
*November 8 - Antonio Tamburini, operatic baritone
*December 3 - Hermann Goetz, composer


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